Political corruption in America : an encyclopedia of scandals, power, and greed

Political corruption in America : an encyclopedia of scandals, power, and greed /

This book covers the complete scandal-filled history of American political corruption, exploring the people, crimes, investigations and court cases behind 200 years of political scandals. It includes political cartoons, photos, graphs, and tables to provide additional context, as well as a historica...

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Main Author: Grossman, Mark (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amenia, New York : Grey House Publishing, [2017]
Edition:Third edition /
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Table of Contents:
  • Vol. 1.
  • Preface to the first edition
  • Preface to the third edition
  • Publisher's note
  • Abramoff, Jack (1959-)
  • ABSCAM
  • Adams, Llewelyn Sherman (1899-1986)
  • Addonizio, Hugh Joseph (1914-1981)
  • Agnew, Spiro Theodore (1918-1996)
  • Alexander, Lamar
  • Ames, Adelbert (1835-1933)
  • Ames, Oakes (1804-1873)
  • Archbald, Robert Wodrow (1848-1926)
  • Archer, Stevenson (1827-1898)
  • Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce, 494 U.S. 652 (1990)
  • Axtell, Samuel Beach (1819-1881)
  • Baker, Robert Gene (1928-)
  • Barry v. United States ex rel. Cunningham, 279 U.S. 597 (1929)
  • Barstow, William Augustus (1813-1865)
  • Belknap, William Worth (1829-1890)
  • Biaggi, Mario (1917-2015)
  • Bilbo, Theodore Gilmore (1877-1947)
  • Bingham, Hiram (1875-1956)
  • Blagojevich, Milorad "Rod" R. (1956-)
  • Blaine, James Gillespie (1830-1893)
  • Blanton, Leonard Ray (1930-1996)
  • Brehm, Walter Ellsworth (1892-1971)
  • Brewster, Daniel Baugh (1923-2007)
  • Bridgegate (2013)
  • Brooks, James (1810-1873)
  • Buckley v. Valeo, 424 U.S. 1 (1976)
  • Bullock, Rufus Brown (1834-1907)
  • Bundling
  • Burton, Joseph Ralph (1852-1923)
  • Burton v. United States, 202 U.S. 344 (1906)
  • Bustamante, Albert Garza (1935-)
  • Butler, David C. (1829-1891)
  • Butler, Roderick Randum (1827-1902)
  • Caldwell, Alexander (1830-1917)
  • Campaign Finance Scandal 1996
  • Catron, Thomas Benton (1840-1921)
  • Caudle, Theron Lamar
  • Censure
  • Chinagate
  • Chippewa Cree Tribal Scandals (2014-2016)
  • Choate, Joseph Hodges (1832-1917)
  • Cianci, Vincent Albert, Jr. (1941-2016)
  • Civil Service Act
  • Civil Service Reform
  • Claiborne, Harry Eugene
  • Claiborne v. United States, 465 U.S. 1305 (1984)
  • Clark, William Andrews (1839-1925)
  • Clayton, Powell (1833-1914)
  • Clean Politics Act of 1939
  • Clinton, William Jefferson (1946-)
  • Code of Official Conduct
  • Coelho, Anthony Lee (1942-)
  • Colfax, Schuyler, Jr. (1823-1885)
  • Colorado Republican Federal Campaign Committee v. Federal Election Commission, 116 S. Ct. 2309, 518 U.S. 604 (1996)
  • Colvin, Harvey Doolittle (1815-1892)
  • Coman, Thomas (1836-1909)
  • Common Cause
  • Congressional Ethics Code
  • Connolly, John Bowden, Jr. (1917-1993)
  • Connelly, Matthew J. (1907-1976)
  • Contempt of Congress
  • Corrupt Practices Act, 36 Stat. 822 (1910)
  • Corrupt Practices Acts (Congressional)
  • Cosby, William (c. 1690-1736)
  • Coughlin, John Joseph (1860-1938)
  • Covode, John (1808-1871)
  • Cox, Charles Christopher (1952-)
  • Cox Report
  • Cranston, Alan MacGregor (1914-2000)
  • Crédit Mobilier Scandal
  • Croker, Richard (1841-1922)
  • Cunningham, Randall Harold (1941-)
  • Curley, James Michael (1874-1958)
  • Curtis, George William (1824-1892)
  • Daugherty, Harry Micajah (1860-1941)
  • Democracy: an American novel
  • Denby, Edwin (1870-1929)
  • Dever, William Emmett (1862-1929)
  • Deweese, John Thomas (1835-1906)
  • Dewey, Thomas Edmund (1902-1971)
  • Diggs, Charles Coleman, Jr. (1922-1998)
  • Dodd, Thomas Joseph (1907-1971)
  • Dorsey, Stephen Wallace (1842-1916)
  • Duer, William (1747-1799)
  • Durenberger, David Ferdinand (1934-)
  • Dwyer, R. Budd (1939-1987)
  • Eaton, Dorman Bridgman (1823-1899)
  • Edwards, Edwin Washington (1927-)
  • Edwards, Francis Smith (1817-1899)
  • Eilberg, Joshua (1921-2004)
  • English, George Washington (1868-1941)
  • EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) Scandal (1983)
  • Espy, Michael Albert (1953-)
  • Ethics in Government Act, Public Law 95-521 (1978)
  • Ethics Reform Act of 1989, Public Law 101-194 (1989)
  • Evans v. United States (504 U.S. 255 [1992])
  • Executive Privilege
  • Expulsion
  • Fall, Albert Bacon (1861-1944)
  • Fattah, Chaka (1956-)
  • Fauntroy, Walter Edward (1933-)
  • Federal Corrupt Practices Act of 1910
  • Federal Corrupt Practices Act of 1925, 43 Stat. 1070; 2 U.S.C. 241 (1925)
  • Federal Electron Campaign Act of 1971, Public Law 92-225, 86 Stat. 3, 2 USC 431 et seq. (1971)
  • Federal Election Campaign Act Amendments of 1974, 88 Stat. 1263 (1974)
  • Federal Election Commission (FEC)
  • Federal Election Commission v. Massachusetts Citizens for Life, Inc., 479 U.S. 238 (1986)
  • Federal Election Commission v. National Conservative Political Action Committee, 470 U.S. 480 (1985)
  • Federal Election Commission v. National Right to Work Committee, 459 U.S. 197 (1982)
  • Ferguson, James Edward (1871-1944)
  • Ferguson, Miriam Amanda Wallace (1875-1961)
  • Filegate
  • Fletcher, Ernest Lee (1952-)
  • Flood, Daniel John (1903-1994)
  • Florida Right to Life, Inc. v. Lamar, 233 F. 3rd 1288 (11th Cir. 2001)
  • Ford, John N. (1942-)
  • Fortas, Abraham (1919-1982)
  • Foulke, William Dudley (1848-1935)
  • Garcia, Robert (1933-2017)
  • Garfield, James Abram (1831-1881)
  • Gaynor, William Jay (1848-1913)
  • Gilbert, William Augustus (1815-1875)
  • Goebel, William (1856-1900)
  • Gore, Albert Arnold, Jr. (1948- )
  • Grover, La Fayette (1823-1911)
  • Grunewald, Henry W.
  • Hague, Frank (1876-1956)
  • Hall, Abraham Oakey (1826-1898)
  • Hanna, Richard Thomas (1914-2001)
  • Hansen, George Vernon (1930-2014)
  • Hastert, John Dennis (1942- )
  • Hastings, Alcee Lamar (1936- )
  • Hatch Act, 53 Stat. 1147 (1939)
  • Hays, Wayne Levere (1911-1989)
  • Hayt, Ezra Ayres (1823-1902)
  • Helstoski, Henry (1925-1999)
  • Helstoski v. Meanor
  • Henderson, John Brooks (1826-1913)
  • Hevesi, Alan G. (1940- )
  • Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C. 1951 (1946)
  • Hoeppel, John Henry (1881-1976)
  • Hoffman, Harold Giles (1896-1954)
  • Hoffman, John Thompson (1828-1888)
  • Holden, William Woods (1818-1892)
  • Honoraria
  • Hopkinson, Francis (1737-1791)
  • House of Representatives Banking Scandal
  • House of Representatives Committee on Standards of Official Conduct
  • House of Representatives Post Office Scandal
  • Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Scandal
  • Hubbard, Carroll, Jr. (1937- )
  • Hubbell, Levi (1808-1876)
  • Hunt, (Harold) Guy (1933-2009)
  • Impeachment
  • Income Tax Scandal, Department of Justice (1951-1952)
  • Independent Counsel Statute, 28 U.S.C. 1826
  • Independent Expenditures
  • Influence Peddling
  • Ingersoll, Robert Green (1833-1899)
  • Iran-Contra Affair
  • IRS Targeting Scandal (2013)
  • Jackson, Edward Franklin (1873-1954)
  • Jackson, James (1757-1806)
  • Jackson, Jesse Louis, Jr. (1965- )
  • Jefferson, William Jennings (1947- )
  • Jenckes, Thomas Allen (1818-1875)
  • Jenrette, John Wilson, Jr.
  • Jerome, William Travers (1859-1934)
  • Johnson, Thomas Francis (1909-1988)
  • Judicial Conduct and Disability Act of 1980, 28 U.S.C. 372(c) (1980)
  • Jurney v. MacCracken, 294 U.S. 125 (1935)
  • Keating Five
  • Kellogg, William Pitt (1830-1918)
  • Kelly, Richard
  • Kerner, Otto, Jr. (1908-1976)
  • Kent, Samuel B. (1949- )
  • Kilbourn v. Thompson, 103 U.S. 168 (1881)
  • Kilpatrick, Kwame (1970- )
  • Kim, Jay Chang-jun (1939- )
  • King, Cecil Rhodes (1898-1974)
  • King, William Smith (1828-1900)
  • Kolter, Joseph Paul
  • Koreagate
  • Lance, Thomas Bertram "Bert" (1931-2013)
  • Langer, William (1886-1959)
  • Leche, Richard Webster (1898-1965)
  • Lederer, Raymond Francis (1938-2008)
  • Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995, Public Law 104-65, 109 Stat. 691, 2 U.S.C. 1601 (1995)
  • Lorimer, William (1861-1934)
  • Louderback, Harold (1881-1941)
  • Lyon, Caleb (1822-1875)
  • Mandel, Marvin (1920-2015)
  • Manton, Martin Thomas (1880-1946)
  • Marshall, Humphrey (1760-1841)
  • Matteson, Orsamus Benajah (1805-1889)
  • Mavroules, Nicholas James (1929-2003)
  • May, Andrew Jackson (1875-1959)
  • McCormick v. United States (500 U.S. 257 [1991])
  • McCotter, Thaddeus George (1965- )
  • McCray, Warren Terry (1865-1938)
  • McDade, Joseph Michael (1931- )
  • McDonnell v. United States, 529 U.S. (2016)
  • McDonnell, Robert Francis (1954- )
  • McGrain v. Dougherty, 273 U.S. 135 (1927)
  • Mecham, Evan (1924-2008)
  • Miller, Thomas Woodnutt (1886-1973)
  • Mills, Wilbur Daigh (1909-1992)
  • Mitchell, John Hipple (1835-1905)
  • Mitchell, John Newton (1913-1988)
  • Mollohan, Alan Bowlby (1943- )
  • Morales, Daniel C. (1956- )
  • Morrison v. Olson, 487 U.S. 654 (1988)
  • Muckrakers
  • Mugwumps
  • Mulligan Letters
  • Myers, Michael Joseph (1943- )
  • 1911 Amendments to the Publicity Act
  • 1940 Amendments to the Hatch Act
  • Newberry v. United States, 256 U.S. 232 (1921)
  • Ney, Robert William (1954- )
  • Nixon, Richard Milhous (1913-1994)
  • Nixon v. Shrink Missouri PAC, 528 U.S. 377 (2000)
  • Nixon v. United States, 506 U.S. 224 (1993)
  • Oakar, Mary Rose
  • Obstruction of Justice
  • Operation Greylord
  • Ordway, Nehemiah George (1828-1907)
  • Pardongate
  • Patterson, James Willis (1823-1893)
  • Peck, James Hawkins (1790?-1836)
  • Pendergast, Thomas Joseph (1872-1945)
  • Pendleton, George Hunt (1825-1889)
  • Pendleton Civil Service Act, 22 Stat. 403 (1883)
  • Perkins, Carl Christopher (1954- )
  • Pickering, John (1737?-1805)
  • Poindexter, George (1779-1853)
  • Poindexter Commission
  • Political Cartoons and Corruption
  • Political Corruption as Portrayed in Films and on Television
  • Political Corruption as Portrayed in Literature
  • Pomeroy, Samuel Clarke (1816-1891)
  • Porteous, G. Thomas, Jr. (1946- )
  • Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr. (1908-1972)
  • Powell v. McCormack, 395 U.S. 486 (1969)
  • Publicity Act of 1910, 36 Stat. 822
  • Vol. 2. Rangel, Charles Bernard (1930- )
  • Rebuke
  • Recall
  • Reed, Harrison (1813-1899)
  • Reeder, Andrew Horatio (1807-1864)
  • Renzi, Richard George "Rick" (1958- )
  • Reynolds, Melvin Jay (1952- )
  • Rezko, Antoin "Tony" (1955?- )
  • Richmond, Frederick William (1923- )
  • Ritter, Halsted Lockwood (1868-1951)
  • Roach, William Nathaniel (1840-1902)
  • Roberts, Owen Josephus (1875-1955)
  • Robinson, Charles (1818-1894)
  • Ross, Robert Tripp (1903-1981)
  • Rostenkowski, Daniel David (1928- )
  • Rowland, John Grosvenor (1957- )
  • Russian Hacking Scandal (2016- )
  • Ryan, George Homer (1934- )
  • Schenck, Robert Cumming (1809-1890)
  • Schmitz, Eugene Edward (1864-1928)
  • Schock, Aaron (1981- )
  • Schumaker, John Godfrey (1826-1905)
  • Seabury, Samuel (1873?-1958)
  • Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People's Republic of China
  • Senate Finance Committee Hearings 1997 (Thompson Committee)
  • Senate Select Committee on Ethics
  • Senate Select Committee on Standards of Conduct
  • Shepherd, Alexander Robey (1835-1902)
  • Shuster, Elmer Greinert "Bud" (1932- )
  • Siegelman, Donald Eugene (1946- )
  • Sikes, Robert Lee Fulton (1906-1994)
  • Silver, Sheldon (1944- )
  • Simmons, James Fowler (1795-1864)
  • Skelos, Dean G. (1948- )
  • Small, Lennington "Len" (1862-1936)
  • Smith, Frank Leslie (1867-1950)
  • Smith, John (1735?-1824)
  • Special Prosecutor (Federal)
  • Speech or Debate Clause of the U.S. Constitution
  • Star Route Frauds
  • Starr, Kenneth Winston (1946- )
  • Stevens, Theodore Fulton, Sr. (1923-2010)
  • Sullivan, Timothy Daniel (1863-1913)
  • Sulzer, William (1863-1941)
  • Swartwout-Hoyt Scandal
  • Swayne, Charles Henry (1842-1907)
  • Symington, John Fife, III (1945- )
  • Talmadge, Herman Eugene (1913-2002)
  • Tammany Hall
  • Tate, James Williams (1831-?)
  • Teapot Dome Scandal
  • Thomas, John Parnell (1895-1970)
  • Thompson, Fred Dalton (1942-2015)
  • Thompson, William Hale (1869-1944)
  • Tillman Act of 1907, 34 Stat. 864 (1907)
  • Tonry, Richard Alvin (1935-2012)
  • Torricelli, Robert Guy (1951- )
  • Traficant, James Anthony, Jr. (1941-2014)
  • Tucker, James Guy, Jr. (1943- )
  • Turner, George (1750?-1843)
  • Tweed, William Magear (1823-1878)
  • Tyner, James Noble (1826-1904)
  • United States v. Bramblett, 348 U.S. 503 (1955)
  • United States v. Brewster, 408 U.S. 501 (1972)
  • United States v. Gillock, 445 U.S. 360 (1980)
  • United States v. Helstoski, 442 U.S. 477 (1979)
  • United States v. Johnson, 383 U.S. 169 (1966)
  • United States v. National Treasury Employees Union
  • United States v. Salinas (522 U.S. 52 [1997])
  • United States v. Shirey, 359 U.S. 255 (1959)
  • United States v. Worrall, 2 U.S. (2 Dall.) 384 (1798)
  • Vare, William Scott (1867-1934)
  • Vermont Right to Life Committee v. Sorrell, 19 F. Supp. 2d 204 (1998), 216 F. 3d 264 (2000)
  • Veterans Administration Scandal (2014- )
  • Walker, James John (1881-1946)
  • Walsh, Thomas James (1859-1933)
  • Walton, John Callaway (1881-1949)
  • Warmoth, Henry Clay (1842-1931)
  • Watergate
  • Welch, William Wickham (1818-1892)
  • Whiskey Ring Scandal
  • Whitewater
  • Whittemore, Benjamin Franklin (1824-1894)
  • Willett, William Forte, Jr. (1869-1938)
  • Williams, Harrison Arlington, Jr. (1919-2001)
  • Williams, John James (1904-1988)
  • Williamson, John Newton (1855-1943)
  • Wilson, Charles Herbert (1917-1984)
  • Worrall, Robert
  • Wright, James Claude, Jr. (1922-2015)
  • Yee, Leland (1948- )
  • Zenger, John Peter (1697-1746)
  • Primary Documents. Appendices: Cases of Expulsion, Censure, and Condemnation in the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate, 1798-Present
  • Senate Cases Involving Qualifications for Membership
  • Independent Counsel Investigations/Special Counsel Investigations
  • House Cases Involving Qualifications for Membership
  • United States Senators Tried and Convicted and Tried and Acquitted, 1806-Present
  • United States Governors in Ethical Trouble-Impeachments, Crimes, and Convictions, 1851-Present
  • Impeachments of Federal Officials, 1799-Present
  • Rules of Procedure and Practice in the Senate when Sitting on Impeachment Trials
  • United States Mayors Involved in Political Corruption
  • Chronology
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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